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Article: UCSD professor's health-care model will be tested in Oregon. (Robert Kaplan of the University of California San Diego)(Special Report: Health Care)
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- San Diego Business Journal
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- November 11, 1991
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Is medical treatment for inflammation of the esophagus more important than treatment for two slipped discs?
It is, according to a public health-care model designed by a UCSD professor and put into practice by Oregon's Health Services Commission.
The Oregon agency is charged with reducing the cost of state and federally funded medical treatment. To do this, it is assigning priorities to health-care treatments to determine how funds from the state's Medicaid program should be divided among needy patients.
The Oregon program is based on a model devised by Robert Kaplan, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, and chief of health-care ...